Historic Prague

Back in Prague

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August 2nd 2007
I was really excited to get back to Prague. It's one of the most beautiful places I'd ever been to, and when I'd been in 2004, there were some key things like the Jewish quarter that had been closed, and we hadn't gotten to see. After arriving exhusted on an overnight train from Ljubljana, we had issues flagging a cab. The only cabbie that picked us up didn't speak much English (odd from my re ... read more

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Following the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of ot... ... read more